Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
is your wedding: do, dream not of Piero. Beshrew your fingers marry, you have disturbed the pleasure of the finest dream. Oh God, I was even coming to it law Oh Jesu, it coming of the swe test. I'll tell you now, me thought I was married, and me thought I spent (Oh Lord why did you wake me) and me thought I spent three spur
Full speech
Gods me, your hair. FIE, fie; to morrow your wedding day, and weep! Gods my comfort. Andrugio could do well: Piero may do better. I have had four husbands my self. The first I called, Sweet Duck ; the second, Dear Heart ; the third, Pretty Pug : But the fourth most sweet, deer, pretty, all in all: he was the very cockeall of a husband. What, Lady? your skin is smooth, your blood warm, your cheek fresh, your eye quick: change of pasture makes fat calves: choice of linen, clean bodies; and (no question) variety of husbands perfect wives I would you should know it, as few teeth as I have in my head, I have read A ristotles Problems, which says; that woman receiveth perfection by the man. What then be the men? Go to, to bed, lie on your back, dream not on Piero. I say no more: to morrow is your wedding: do, dream not of Piero. Beshrew your fingers marry, you have disturbed the pleasure of the finest dream. Oh God, I was even coming to it law Oh Jesu, it coming of the swe test. I'll tell you now, me thought I was married, and me thought I spent (Oh Lord why did you wake me) and me thought I spent three spur Royals on the Fid le for striking up a fresh hornpipe. Saint Ursula, I was even going to bed, & you, me thought, my hus band was even putting out the tapers, when you, Lord I shall never have such a dream come upon me, as long as
Plot summary
Plot — Antonio's Revenge (2 Antonio and Mellida)
The war between Venice and Genoa is over, and peace is to be sealed with a marriage between Antonio and Mellida, the children of the two dukes; Antonio's mother Maria is on her way to Venice to attend the wedding. But Duke Piero's commitment to peace is not sincere: he secretly murders Felice and Duke Andrugio, and hides Felice's body in Mellida's bedroom. When Antonio comes to wake her on the wedding morning, he finds the body hanging in the window, and Piero claims that he killed Felice in rage upon finding him and Mellida fornicating; Mellida herself is imprisoned. Andrugio in tum is reported to have died of joy. Piero's plan is to kill Antonio, marry Mellida to the heir to the duchy of Florence, and marry Maria himself, thereby extending his dominion across three Italian states. To this end, he plans to frame Antonio and establish Mellida's innocence. Antonio visits Andrugio's tomb and sees his ghost, who calls on him to avenge his death, assures him of Mellida's chastity, and warns him that Maria is going to marry Piero. Antonio murders Piero's son. The day before Maria's intended wedding, the ghost appears to her in her bedroom and reproaches her for disloyalty in widowhood. He further tells her that he was poisoned by Piero, and insists that Antonio should flee the court in order to seek revenge. Instead, Antonio stays at court disguised as a fool, and has it put about that he is dead. Mellida is put on trial, and Strozzo makes a false confession vindicating her and implicating Antonio in his father's death; Piero strangles him. On hearing that Antonio is dead, Mellida falls ill and dies herself. Letters are found in Strozzo's study which establish Piero's guilt, and opposition to him gathers head. With Maria's collusion, Antonio and his allies present a masque, which serves as cover to assault Piero: they remove his tongue, serve him a banquet of his dead son's limbs, and kill him. Contrary to expectations, the Venetian senators approve and applaud the murder, but even so the revengers declare their intention to retire to a religious order.